Congressmen Request “Safe Schools” Czar be Removed

With the elections looming in 2010, Congressional members suddenly start acting tough:

Congress to Obama: Lose Jennings
‘It is clear that he lacks the appropriate qualifications’
Posted: October 10, 2009
WorldNetDaily

About a dozen members of Congress have written President Obama, strongly suggesting the administration lose Kevin Jennings, a homosexual activist who was appointed to supervise the Education Department’s Office of Safe Schools.

“We respectfully request that you remove Kevin Jennings, the Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, from your administration,” the members wrote. “It is clear that Mr. Jennings lacks the appropriate qualifications
and ethical standards to serve in this capacity.”

He founded the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, which promotes homosexual perspectives in public schools across the nation.

In a letter signed by U.S. Reps. Doug Lamborn of Colorado, Steve King of Iowa, Duncan Hunter of California, Darrell Issa of California, Paul Broun of Georgia, Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania and others, the authors point out Jennings “has played an integral role in promoting homosexuality and pushing a pro-homosexual agenda in America’s schools.”

“Throughout his career, Mr. Jennings has made it his mission to establish special protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered students to the exclusion of all other students,” the letter said.

“There is more to safe and drug free schools than can be accomplished from the narrow view of Mr. Jennings who has, for more than 20 years, almost exclusively focused on promoting the homosexual agenda.”

The members of Congress also pointed out that troubling was Jennings’ “self-described history of ignoring the sexual abuse of a child.” They cited his reference in his book, “One Teacher in Ten,” about a 15-year-old student confiding in him that he had a sexual relationship with a much older man. Jennings response was to ask whether a condom had been used.

“As a mandatory reporter, Mr. Jennings was required by law to report child abuse, including sex crimes,” the members of Congress said.

Although Jennings reported the student was 15, other reports have suggested he was 16 at the time.

Further, Jennings has a “history of unrepentant drug and alcohol abuse.”

“You should replace him with someone who has a record of educating children in a safe and moral environment,” the letter concluded.

The Mission America ministry has documented Jennings’ career extensively and said his biggest accomplishment has been founding GLSEN, which lobbies for homosexual activities in public schools.

“Mission America has called GLSEN a child corruption group from the outset. We took a hard look a few years back at the books GLSEN recommends for students. Most of the books we examined remain on GLSEN’s list today on its web site. We also looked at one of its early curricula, ‘Tackling Gay Issues in Schools.’ GLSEN has never refuted any of our findings,” the website says.

“This is the history of what Kevin Jennings is all about, and why he needs to be removed from this position immediately.”

Right to Bear Arms

AZ_Conservative send us a plethora of motivational posters.  I decided to highlight a few:

Obama’s Safe School’s Czar Wrote Foreward in Pedophile Book

Since I don’t get FOX News on my local cable lineup, I didn’t see Hannity’s show last night, until this afternoon.  However, everyone needs to be made aware of this story:

These are the type of people Obama is surrounding himself with to help make policy decisions…

Al-Qaeda Linked Nuclear Engineer Arrested

Move along, nothing to see here, folks:

Nuclear engineer from Cern lab arrested for al-Qaeda links

Adam Sage – Times Online

French agents have arrested a researcher from Europe’s top atomic lab on suspicion of links to al-Qaeda, fuelling fears that terrorists could be targeting the nuclear industry.

The 32-year-old man, who was detained along with his brother, works for the prestigious European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva, Switzerland, according to French police sources.

”The inquiry will doubtless say what were the objectives in France or elsewhere and indicate perhaps that we have avoided the worst possible scenario,” said Brice Hortefeux, the French Interior Minister.

An intelligence source told Le Figaro that ”this is a very high level” case.

The suspect is believed to have been in contact with members of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), an Algerian-based terrorist organisation which joined Osama bin Laden’s network in 2007.

A source said French intelligence officers had intercepted messages in which the man had suggested targets in France.

”He had expressed a wish or a desire to commit terrorist actions, but had not materially prepared them,” said the source.

The suspect had been under surveillance for about 18 months after he was identified during an investigation into a French network which sent Islamic radicals to Afghanistan.

Our Glorious Dark Overlord Wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Okay, I get it now:  The more one destroys and belittles America, the more favored one is by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee.   Had the terrorists on 9/11 not committed suicide, they probably would have been a shoe-in for 2002.  I’m sure if they had been full-blown Commies, they would have been awarded their prize posthumously…

The guy who nukes the U.S; they’ll probably give him a lifetime supply of  Nobel Peace Prizes…

And, as Erick Erickson of RedState noted, “He’s become Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter Did.”

H/T – Gramfan

Obama’s Nobel: the Left rewards its own
Andrew Bolt – Herald Sun
Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 12:02am

So who decided to give Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing but talk? Who gave it to a man with no concrete achievements, and who’d been just 11 days in office when nominations closed?

Here they are, the five Peace Prize judges appointed by the Norwegian Storting (parliament) under the terms of Alfred Nobel’s bequest:

• Thorbjørn Jagland (Chairman) – President of the Storting, former Labor Prime Minister, vice president of the Socialist International, named by the KGB as a ”confidential contact”.

• Kaci Kullmann Five – public affairs advisor and former Conservative politican.

• Sissel Rønbeck – former minister of Left-wing Labour Party.

• Inger-Marie Ytterhorn – political adviser to the centre-Right Progress Party

• Ågot Valle – Socialist Left member of Parliament.

I think the numbers tell the tale, given three of the five are either Socialists or of the Labour Party, orginally formed as a Marxist group.. Wouldn’t hurt Obama, either, that four of the five judges are women.

But Jagland seems confused about whether Obama was given the prize as a reward for deeds done or for deeds merely promised:

• “We are not awarding the prize for what may happen in the future, but for what he has done in the previous year,” Mr. Jagland said. ”We would hope this will enhance what he is trying to do.”

Environ-MENTAL-ist “Green Consumers” More Likely to Be Liars and Thieves

We needed a study to tell us that?

Greens more likely thieves and liars, says shock study
Trick-cyclists v hippies – who to trust?
By Lewis Page
8th October 2009 – TheRegister.co.uk

Psychologists in Canada have revealed new research suggesting that people who become eco-conscious “green consumers” are “more likely to steal and lie” than others.

The new study comes from professor Nina Mazar of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and her colleague Chen-Bo Zhong.

“Those lyin’, cheatin’ green consumers,” begins the statement from the university. “Buying products that claim to be made with low environmental impact can set up ‘moral credentials’ in people’s minds that give license to selfish or questionable behavior.”

“This was not done to point the finger at consumers who buy green products,” insists Mazar, who claims to be a green consumer herself.

“If we do one moral thing, it doesn’t necessarily mean we will be morally better in other things as well.”

Mazar and Zhong’s paper can be read in full online (pdf here). In it, the two psych eggheads write:

In line with the halo associated with green consumerism, people act more altruistically after mere exposure to green than conventional products. However, people act less altruistically and are more likely to cheat and steal after purchasing green products as opposed to conventional products… purchasing green products may produce the counterintuitive effect of licensing asocial and unethical behaviors by establishing moral credentials. Thus, green products do not necessarily make us better people.

In this experiment that underlined the moral turpitude of eco-conscious consumers, two groups carried out purchases either in a “green store” or a normal store. They were then told they were to participate in an exercise intended to help design new tests, in which they would be paid money based on answers given. It was revealed to them in a dry run beforehand that they could lie about the answers in order to increase their earnings. They were also told to pay themselves – unsupervised – from an envelope of cash. As the profs put it:

Thus, in addition to having the opportunity to lie, participants could also steal…

Those who had made purchases in the green store lied and stole significantly more than the normal-store buyers, according to Mazar and Zhong.

Comment

So there you have it: People who buy green – who offset their carbon, who purchase greened-up electricity, who put windmills on their roofs etc etc – are in the main thieving, lying, holier-than-thou scumbags. The old adage is right: You can never trust a hippy.

Much as we’d love to believe it, though, the whole study – like all of its News McNugget fast-food psychobabble kind – has caused the needle on our bullshit meter to flick far across into the brown zone. Green consumers, we’d suggest, are far more likely to be ripped off by unscrupulous charlatans than they are to be charlatans themselves.

[Yeah, way to throw out that victim card, green-boy!  ]

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Homeland Security Strong Arms Sheriff Arpaio—Strips Him of His Federal Powers

I didn’t see this story until today, but it is a very important story.

Still think Homeland Security was set up to protect America from terrorism?  Think again!  It’s just another Nazi-ish arm of the Leftist commies in our government—Like Janet Nappy-Latino.

Who do you think is going to get the blame if an illegal alien terrorist is pulled over by one of Arpaio’s deputies and then is allowed to run loose—eventually killing hundreds—all because Homeland Security doesn’t want Arpaio and his deputies enforcing the immigration laws?  You can sure bet it won’t be Homeland Security!:

Arizona Sheriff’s Powers Cut
Mr. Arpaio will be restricted to determining the immigration status of inmates
–WSJ

The Obama administration is curbing the powers of an Arizona sheriff who has led one of the most contentious fights against illegal immigrants.

Under an agreement involving local enforcement of federal immigration law, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies will no longer have the authority to arrest suspected illegal immigrants in the streets in the course of their duty.

A senior official with Immigration & Customs Enforcement flew to Phoenix late last month with the revised agreement, which the sheriff signed late last week.

Homeland Security announced in July that all localities participating in the enforcement program — more than 60 from Alabama to California — would have to sign revised enforcement deals by Oct. 15. Unlike others participating in the program, Mr. Arpaio will be restricted to determining the immigration status of inmates booked into Maricopa County jails. Vincent Picard, an ICE spokesman in Phoenix, declined to comment. ICE is a unit of the Department of Homeland Security.

Mr. Arpaio was an early participant in a federal immigration program that enlists and trains local police to identify suspected criminal aliens in jails and on the streets. The program, known as 287g, is designed to target drug dealers, gang members and human smugglers.

Since February 2007, Mr. Arpaio has arrested about 30,000 illegal immigrants who were booked into jails in his county. The street-enforcement component, the most contentious portion of the program, resulted in the apprehension of far fewer people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally.

Human-rights activists have said Mr. Arpaio’s officers engaged in racial profiling and found pretexts, such as broken tail lights, to arrest undocumented residents of the Phoenix area. The Department of Justice is investigating whether officers used skin color as a pretense to stop Hispanics. Mr. Arpaio has said that his actions were in line with the law.

“They took away my authority on the streets. That doesn’t matter because I will still pursue illegals on the streets of Maricopa utilizing the authority I have as the elected official,” Mr. Arpaio said Tuesday in an interview.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ordered a comprehensive review of the 287g program shortly after taking office.

A person close to the Obama administration said some DHS officials had been hoping Mr. Arpaio would withdraw from the program altogether when confronted with a watered-down version.

Mr. Arpaio, a headline-grabbing elected official in his fifth term, said: “They thought I wasn’t going to sign it. I signed it.”

Obama Wants to Kumbaya the Taliban to Death, I Guess…

Remind me again just who is it that we are fighting in Afghanistan?  I could have sworn it is al-Qaeda AND the Taliban—mostly the Taliban, right now.  Obama is a moron.  No wonder our Military men and women are getting so discouraged.  It isn’t that this is an un-winnable war, because it is certainly winnable, no, the problem is that Obama is tying our Military’s hands with all his “Team Delta Farce Kumbaya” crap.

Where are our Saudi friends?  Shouldn’t they be fighting alongside us in Afghanistan?  I mean, aren’t they the ones who exported al-Qaeda?:

AP source: Obama focusing on al-Qaida, not Taliban
Oct 8 01:47 PM US/Eastern
By JENNIFER LOVEN – via Breitbart

WASHINGTON (AP) – A senior administration official says President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and is inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as are needed to keep al-Qaida at bay.

The assessment comes from an official who has been involved in the president’s discussions with his war council about Afghanistan strategy. The official was authorized to speak to The Associated Press about the discussions but not to be identified by name because the talks are ongoing.

Aides say the president’s final decision on Afghanistan strategy and troop levels is still at least two weeks away, but the emerging thinking suggests he would be unlikely to favor a large military ramp-up of the kind being advocated by his top commander in Afghanistan [General McChrystal].

As 2010 Approaches, Congress to Start Funding ACORN Again

Rep. Michelle Bachman admits what many of us were thinking:  Funding of ACORN will re-commence at the end of  this month.

What?  You actually thought the Commies were going to abandon their vote-cow with 2010 looking so bleak for them?  Not a chance, Comrade!